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XBMC on Facebook

Nov 25, 2008
Team XBMC
Did you know that XBMC has its own official fan page on Facebook where fans around the world can show their support of XBMC Media Center software? Now you to can become a fan of XBMC on Facebook, post fan photos and videos or post a review, and tell all your friends of...
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gnitting can be fun, too!

Nov 18, 2008
Team XBMC
The first task I’ve taken up for the next release of XBMC is to clean up our build system. As it stands now, XBMC is a hassle to build on any Linux distrobution except Ubuntu. This is mostly the fault of our configure and Makefiles not conforming to expected standards...
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XBMC Live 8.10 (Atlantis) released

Nov 15, 2008
Team XBMC
The new release is out in public. It contains the following notable changes: ATI/AMD Catalyst 8.9 unified hard disk/USB flash disk installer; new in this version is the hard disk installation: - it creates three partitions on the hard disk (boot, fat32 – swap – media,...
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XBMC 8.10 Atlantis released

Nov 14, 2008
Team XBMC
Team-XBMC is proud to announce the cross-platform release of XBMC Media Center version 8.10 for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Windows, and Xbox, code named ‘ Atlantis ‘. We have reached the end of over 3-months of bug bashing, and have closed 425...
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XBMC featured at IPTV 2.0 Conference in Rome

Oct 17, 2008
Team XBMC
On October the 15th an important conference on “The role of open standards and free software in bringing the choice of Net TV To Italians’ sofas” was held at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome, see the event page for more information (and videos!). In that context I...
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Translators needed.

Oct 17, 2008
Team XBMC
With the upcoming Atlantis release, we would like to ask for international users to help out by translating XBMC into your language or if it’s already translated, review and improve the current translation. Deadline for submitting these translations is the 25th of...
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ATVUSB-Creator under Windows: Whats the delay?

Oct 13, 2008
Team XBMC
I’ve gotten numinous queries about when atvusb-creator will get released for the Windows platform. Rest assured, it’s in progress. I thought I would take a little time to explain the difficulties. First, Windows is really a goofy platform, it has almost no command-line...
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Released: XBMC Live Atlantis Beta 2

Oct 7, 2008
Team XBMC
XBMC Live Atlantis Beta2 has been released and is available at sourceforge ! Main changes since last release: * updated NVIDIA drivers, 177.78 * enhanced XBMC Live creator, with bug fixes and new functionality such as install to hard disk. WARNING: THE CHOSEN DISK (...
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XBMC Atlantis Beta 2 released - added Apple TV support

Oct 6, 2008
Team XBMC
Team-XBMC is proud to announce the second cross-platform Beta version of XBMC Media Center for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Windows, and Xbox, in preparation for the upcoming point release of XBMC, code named ‘ Atlantis ‘. New in this release is...
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Whats this XBMC for Mac running on the AppleTV?

Oct 1, 2008
Team XBMC
Yes sir, that’s correct. XBMC for Mac runs on the AppleTV and get this, it’s under the native AppleTV OS that you can launch right from FrontRow. Pretty cool. I do have give great thanks to Stephan Diederich for his absolutely brilliant work on the AppleTV plugin XBMC...
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Pbuilder or How to Compile XBMC on a chroot system.

Oct 1, 2008
Team XBMC
As a XBMC developer and as XBMC is now supported on multiple Ubuntu version (feisty, gutsy, hardy and Intrepid), you might sometimes want to compile on another system than the one you are running on. This article is to help you doing that without reinstalling your...
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Skinners can suspend and hibernate!

Sep 23, 2008
Team XBMC
Just wanted to make it aware to skinners (and people wanting to tweak keymap.xml) that it is possible since beta1 to controll power management through actions. The usefull commands are: XBMC.Shutdown() – Will trigger your default behaviour (setup in settings ->...
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XBMC Atlantis Beta 1 released - now serving all common platforms

Sep 18, 2008
Team XBMC
Team-XBMC is proud to announce the first cross-platform Beta version of XBMC media center for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard and Tiger), Windows, and Xbox, in preparation for the upcoming stable release of XBMC, code named ‘Atlantis’. There are three important news items...
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iTunes and iPhoto Integration in XBMC

Sep 18, 2008
Team XBMC
XBMC for Mac – Atlantis Beta 1, includes two new plugins that allow users to access their organized media in iTunes and iPhoto from within XBMC. ( Both released under GPL, see update at the end of this post ) iTunes The iTunes plugin is in the Music section. To start...
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iPhone and XBMC, the remote of the future?

Sep 16, 2008
Team XBMC
Pondering one would have XBMC and iPhone, wouldn’t that little touchscreen make a good remote? Narcan made one, but is it all a pipe dream or could it be the remote of the future? In a nutshell the remote is doing querys to XBMC’s webserver and displays the result in a...
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Thanks for all the bug reports

Sep 9, 2008
Team XBMC
Just a quick post of gratitude for all the bug reports we’ve had over the last month or so. Without your great support at testing things out and taking the time to narrow down and get any issues reproducible, XBMC wouldn’t be as great as it is now. As you can see , we’...
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Apples Gamma Bug

Sep 5, 2008
Team XBMC
I was recently looking into the fade effect on OS X which happens when you switch from windowed mode to full screen and vice versa. I thought it’d be better if it only faded the effected display, so I started looking into a great example from Apple. There was an issue...
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Intel Graphics Benchmarking Weekend

Aug 30, 2008
Team XBMC
I long suspected something to not be 100% correct with Intel’s Linux drivers for Graphics, so before this weekend I set out to do some benchmarking. Here’s what happened before: I chatted briefly with people in #Intel-gfx on FREENODE earlier this week, understandably...
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Database query speedups

Aug 24, 2008
Team XBMC
I was testing some smartplaylists out from some bug reports , and found that the same query was performed significantly faster in SQLiteSpy than in XBMC on the same machine. The performance was an order of magnitude slower in XBMC than it was in SQLiteSpy, and we...
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XBMC Atlantis Alpha 4 released

Aug 24, 2008
Team XBMC
Due to the great feedback from Alpha 3 users in terms of bug reports, many of which have already been fixed , Team-XBMC have released the latest Alpha version of XBMC for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Xbox. This is the last in a series of alpha releases in preparation...
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